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E-Rare Joint Transnational Call for Proposals 2014
"Development of Innovative Therapeutic
Approaches for Rare Diseases"
Submission deadline for pre-proposals: January 30, 2014
Please find the links to pre-proposal template, electronic proposal submission,
guidelines for applicants and further information
on the website
www.e-rare.eu
or contact the joint call secretariat:
Ignacio Baanante
[email protected]
(+34) 918222576
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1. MOTIVATION
There are at least 6.000 to 7.000 distinct rare diseases, the great majority being of genetic
origin. Although individually rare, taken together rare diseases affect at least 26-30 million
people in Europe. Moreover, they represent a major issue in health care: a large number of
these diseases lead to a significant decrease of life expectancy and most of them cause
chronic illnesses with a large impact on quality of life and the health care system.
Therefore, research on rare diseases is needed to provide knowledge for prevention,
diagnosis and better care of patients. Yet, research is hampered by lack of resources at
several levels: (1) Few scientists work on one specific disease, (2) There are few patients per
disease and they are scattered over a large geographic area, causing difficulties to gather
the necessary cohorts, (3) Existing databases and material collections are usually local,
small, and not accessible or standardised, (4) Diseases often have complex clinical
phenotypes and require interdisciplinary cooperation for research, hence, interdisciplinary
approaches to treatment.
The specificities of rare diseases - limited number of patients, scarcity of relevant knowledge
and expertise, and fragmentation of research - single them out as a distinctive domain of
very high European added-value. Rare diseases are therefore a prime example of a research
area that can strongly benefit from collaboration/coordination on a transnational scale.
In this context, the ERA-Net “E-Rare” for research programmes on rare diseases has been
extended to a second phase “E-Rare-2” (2010-2014) to further help in coordinating the
research efforts of European countries in the field of rare diseases.
The following parties,
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The Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Austria
The Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Belgium, Flanders
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Institute of Genetics (CIHR-IG),
Canada
Le Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé (FRQS), Québec (Canada)
The French National Research Agency (ANR), France
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany
The Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA), Hungary
The Chief Scientist Office of the Ministry of Health (CSO-MOH), Israel
The Italian Ministry of Health (MoH), Italy
The Latvian Academy of Sciences (LAS), Latvia
The National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR), Poland
The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal
The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and
Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI), Romania
The National Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland
The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw), The
Netherlands
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK), Turkey
have decided to open the sixth E-Rare joint transnational call (JTC 2014) for funding
multilateral research projects for promoting the development of innovative therapeutic
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approaches on rare diseases. The call is being opened simultaneously by the partners in
their respective countries.
2. AIM OF THE CALL
The aim of the E-Rare Joint Transnational Calls (JTCs) is to enable scientists in different
countries to build an effective collaboration on a common interdisciplinary research project
based on complementarities and sharing of expertise, with a clear translational research
approach.
The specific objective of this call is to promote the development of innovative therapeutic
approaches for rare diseases. In order to achieve this goal, the necessary expertise and
resources should be brought together from academia, clinical/public health sector and private
companies.
Projects shall involve a group of rare diseases or a single rare disease following the
European definition (a seriously debilitating and/or life-threatening disease affecting not more
than 5 in 10.000 people). Rare infectious diseases, rare cancers and rare adverse drug
events in treatments of common diseases are excluded from the scope of the call.
The research projects have to focus on the pre-clinical development of therapeutic
approaches in suitable existing animal or cell models.
Therapeutic approaches can include (but are not limited to):
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Cell-based therapy (e.g. somatic cell therapy, cell-based regenerative medicine,
tissue engineering, therapies based on combinations of cells with scaffolds or
substrates, etc.)
Gene therapy (e.g. transfer of nucleic acids for therapeutic purposes including DNA,
RNA, oligonucleotides etc.)
Pharmacological therapy (e.g. use of chemicals or biopharmaceuticals including
repurposing approaches, high throughput screening of molecules, etc.)
The following approaches and topics are excluded from the scope of the call:
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Development of new cell or animal models. The relevant cell or animal models do
already need to be established for the purpose of the project
Interventional clinical trials or any projects enrolling patients
Therapeutic approaches concerning rare infectious diseases, rare cancers and rare
adverse drug events in treatments of common diseases
Surgery or radiation therapies
Project proposals must clearly demonstrate the potential health impact as well as the addedvalue of transnational collaboration: sharing of resources (cell and animal models,
compounds, databases, etc.), sharing of specific know-how and/or innovative technologies,
etc.
The aim of the call is in compliance with the goals set by the International Rare Diseases
Research Consortium (IRDiRC) which was launched in April 2011 to foster international
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collaboration in rare diseases research. For more information see IRDiRC website:
http://www.irdirc.org/
3. MANAGEMENT BOARDS
Two boards, the Call Steering Committee (CSC) and the Scientific Evaluation Committee
(SEC), will manage the evaluation process of the call with support of the Joint Call
Secretariat (JCS) (set up at ISCIII, Spain). The process includes the evaluation procedure of
pre- and full-proposals and the final selection and award of research projects.
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The Call Steering Committee (CSC) is composed of a single representative from
each country/region funding organisation. The CSC will supervise the progress of the
call and the evaluation of proposals. The CSC will make the final funding
recommendation to the national/regional funding organisations on the proposals to be
funded, based on the final ranking list provided by the SEC. All decisions concerning
the call procedures will be taken by the CSC.
The Scientific Evaluation Committee (SEC) is a panel of internationally recognised
scientific experts responsible for the evaluation of submitted proposals. SEC
members will not submit or participate in proposals within this call, and must sign a
confidentiality form and a statement to confirm that they do not have any conflicts of
interest. The SEC will nominate external peer reviewers.
4. APPLICATION
4.1. Funding recipients/Eligibility
Joint research proposals may be submitted by applicants belonging to one of the following
categories (according to country/regional regulations):
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academia (research teams working in universities, other higher education institutions
or research institutes)
clinical/public health sector (research teams working in hospitals/public health and/or
other health care settings and health organisations)
enterprise (all sizes of private companies). Participation of small and medium-size
enterprises (SMEs) is encouraged when allowed by national/regional regulations
 Please note that the inclusion of a non-eligible partner in a proposal leads to the
rejection of the entire proposal without further review. Whilst applications will be
submitted jointly by research groups from several countries, individual groups will be
funded by the individual funding organisation of their country/region that is participating
in the E-Rare-2 JTC 2014. The applications are therefore subject to eligibility criteria
of individual funding organisations. Applicants are strongly advised to contact their
corresponding national/regional representative and confirm eligibility with their
respective funding organisations in advance of submitting an application (see
national/regional contact details and Annex).
Only transnational research projects will be funded. Each consortium submitting a proposal
must involve a minimum of three and a maximum of six eligible research groups from at
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least three different countries participating to the call. Not more than two eligible research
groups from the same partner country participating in the call will be accepted. Groups that
secure their own funding may join consortia.
The consortium coordinator, as well as a minimum of 50% of all research groups, must be
eligible to receive funding from the funding organisations participating in the call.
Research groups from countries whose funding organisations are not partners in this E-Rare2 call may participate in projects if they secure their own funding.
It must be clearly stated in the proposal by all research groups that secure their own funding
how these funds are already secured, and if not, how they plan to obtain funding in advance.
Documentation of the availability of funds will be required before October 1st, 2014.
Each transnational collaborative project should represent the critical mass to achieve
ambitious scientific goals and should clearly demonstrate an added value from working
together. Industry is explicitly invited for its active participation in order to ensure an efficient
transfer of pre-clinical results into application.
Each transnational proposal must nominate a project consortium coordinator among the
project partner principal investigators. The coordinator must be a project partner from an ERare-2 JTC 2014 funding country/region. The project coordinator will represent the
consortium externally and towards the JCS and CSC, and will be responsible for its internal
scientific management (such as controlling, reporting, intellectual property rights issues and
contact with the JCS). Each project partner will be represented by one (and only one)
principal investigator. Within a joint proposal, each project partner principal investigator will
be the contact person for the relevant country/regional funding organisation.
The duration of the projects can be up to 3 years. Nevertheless, a partner can receive
funding for less than 3 years according to E-Rare-2 JTC 2014 funding organisations eligibility
criteria and regulations.
4.2. Submission of joint proposals
There will be a two-stage submission procedure for joint applications: pre-proposals and
full proposals. In both cases, one joint proposal document (in English) shall be prepared by
the partners of a joint transnational proposal, and must be submitted to the JCS by uploading
it on the electronic submission system (https://www.pt-it.de/ptoutline/ERARE14) by one
spokesperson, the coordinator. Only pre-proposals and full proposals templates duly
completed following the “Guidelines for applicants” will be accepted.
Joint pre-proposals (in English) must be received by the JCS in an electronic version no
later than 30th January 2014 at 20:00 UTC.
The decision on selection of applications for invitation to full proposal will be communicated
by mid of April 2014.
Please note that joint full proposals will be accepted only from those applicants
explicitly invited by the JCS to submit them. Full proposals (in English) must be received
by the JCS in an electronic version no later than 26th May 2014 at 20:00 UTC.
The information given in the pre-proposal is binding. Thus, any fundamental changes
between the pre- and full proposals, e.g. composition of the consortia, objectives of the
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project, must be communicated to the JCS with detailed justification and will only be allowed
by the CSC under exceptional circumstances.
The selection on full proposals will be communicated to applicants as soon as possible and
before the end of October 2014.
Further information on how to submit pre-proposals and full proposals electronically will be
made available through the E-Rare website (www.e-rare.eu) and in the "Guidelines for
applicants". The forms that have to be used for submission of pre-proposals and full
proposals are available on the E-Rare website. Applicants should take note of individual
national/regional rules, and should contact their national/regional contact person for any
questions (see “contact information” section).
For applicants from some countries/regions it might be necessary to submit the proposals
and/or other information directly to the country/regional funding organisations. Therefore,
applicants are strongly advised to check their national/regional funding organisations for
more details (see country/regional contact details and "Guidelines for applicants").
4.3. Further information
If you need additional information, please contact the JCS or your national/regional funding
organisation representative (see contact information below). For further details please refer
to the "Guidelines for applicants" or www.e-rare.eu.
5. EVALUATION
5.1. Evaluation criteria
Pre-proposals and full proposals will be assessed according to specific evaluation criteria
(see below), using a common evaluation form. A scoring system from 0 to 5 will be used to
evaluate the proposal’s performance with respect to the different evaluation criteria.
Scoring system:
0: fails or missing/incomplete information; 1: poor; 2: fair; 3: good; 4: very good; 5: excellent
Evaluation criteria:
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Scientific and technological quality of the proposal (innovative potential, adequate
methodology)
Feasibility of the project (adequate requested resources, time schedule)
International competitiveness of participating research groups in the field(s) of the
proposal (previous work in the field, expertise of the research groups)
Level of collaborative interaction between the groups and added value of the
transnational consortium
Potential of the expected results for future clinical, public health and/or other socioeconomic health relevant applications (impact)
5.2. Eligibility check of pre-proposals and first step peer review
5.2.1. Eligibility check
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The JCS will check all pre-proposals to ensure that they meet the call’s formal criteria (date
of submission; number and country distribution of participating research groups; inclusion of
all necessary information in English, page length of each section). The JCS will forward the
proposals to the CSC members who will perform a check for compliance to country/region
rules.
Please note that proposals not meeting the formal criteria or the national/regional eligibility
criteria and requirements will be declined without further review.
5.2.2. Peer review of pre-proposals
Proposals passing the eligibility check (call secretariat and country/region) will be forwarded
to the SEC members for a first evaluation (see evaluation criteria above). The SEC will meet
to establish a ranking of the proposals. The CSC will meet to decide which proposals will be
accepted for the full proposal submission based on the SEC recommendations.
5.3. Evaluation of full proposals with right to reply (rebuttal stage)
5.3.1. Formal criteria check
The JCS will check the full proposals to ensure that they meet the call’s formal criteria and
have not changed substantially from the respective pre-proposals before sending them to the
external reviewers.
5.3.2. External reviewer’s evaluation
Each proposal will be allocated to at least two external reviewers who fit the profile of the
application.
5.3.3. Rebuttal stage
Before the SEC members see the reviews from external reviewers, each project coordinator
will be provided with the opportunity of studying the assessments and commenting on the
arguments and evaluations of the reviewers, which remain anonymous. This stage allows
applicants to comment on factual errors or misunderstandings that may have been
committed by the external reviewers while assessing their proposal and to reply to reviewers’
questions. However, issues which are not related with reviewers’ comments or questions
cannot be addressed and the work plan cannot be modified at this stage.
The applicants will have up to one week (between first and second week of July) for this
optional response to the reviewers’ comments.
5.3.4. SEC evaluation
The JCS will send full proposals, reviews and rebuttals to the SEC members. The SEC will
meet to discuss each proposal and, after consideration of the evaluation criteria, external
reviews, rebuttals and their own discussions, the SEC will make a classification of the
proposals and rank proposals recommended for funding.
5.4. Funding decision
Based on the proposals’ classification established by the SEC and on available funding the
CSC will suggest the projects to be funded to the national/regional funding organisations.
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Based on these recommendations, final decisions will be made by the national/regional
funding organisations and will be subject to budgetary considerations.
The Joint Call Secretariat will communicate to all project coordinators the final decisions
together with the review from the SEC.
6. FINANCIAL AND LEGAL ISSUES
6.1. Funding model
The E-Rare-2 JTC 2014 Funding Partners have agreed to launch a joint call using the “virtual
common pot funding mode. This means that national/regional funding will be made available
through national/regional funding organisations according to national/regional funding
regulations. Each country/region funds only its national/regional component of the
transnational research project. The funding rate within the call will be variable up to a
maximum of 100% of the funds requested, according to national/regional rules. Prior to
submitting a proposal, applicants should verify their eligibility and the rate of financial support
with their national/regional funding organisation, and are recommended to contact their
national/regional contact person (see national/regional contact details).
Funding is granted for a maximum of three years according to national regulations. Eligible
costs may vary according to the corresponding national/regional funding organisation
regulations. Each group is subject to the rules and regulations of their respective
national/regional funding organisation.
6.2. Funding contracts
Each project includes several consortium members called research partners and one project
coordinator. Each research partner (including the project coordinator) will have a separate
funding contract/letter of grant according to national/regional regulations with the appropriate
national/regional funding institutions.
Changes to the composition of research consortia or in budget cannot occur during the
contract/letter of grant, unless there is a good justification. Any minor changes have to be
well justified and the relevant funding organisations will decide upon the proper action to be
taken. However, in case of major changes, an independent expert can be consulted to help
with the final decision of the funding organisations. The research partners shall inform the
JCS and the funding bodies of that project of any event that might affect the implementation
of the project.
6.3. Research consortium agreement and ownership of intellectual property
rights
The project consortium partners must sign a consortium agreement (CA) for cooperation
addressing the issues given in “Guidelines for applicants” on consortium agreements
(available on the E-Rare-2 website). The research consortium is strongly encouraged to sign
this CA before the official project start date, and in any case the CA has to be signed no later
than six months after the official project start date. Upon request, this consortium agreement
must be made available to the concerned E-Rare-2 JTC 2014 funding organisations. Please
note that for some agencies the signature of the CA is mandatory before the project starts
(see country/regional details in the "Guidelines for applicants").
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Results and new Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) resulting from projects funded through the
E-Rare-2 Joint Transnational Call will be owned by the researchers’ organisations according
to national rules on IPR. If several participants have jointly carried out work generating new
IPR, they shall agree amongst themselves (consortium agreement) as to the allocation of
ownership of IPR, taking into account their contributions to the creation of those IPR as well
as the European guidelines on IPR issues.
The results of the research project and IPR created should be actively exploited and made
available for use, whether for commercial gain or not, in order for public benefit to be
obtained from the knowledge created.
The funding partners shall have the right to use documents, information and results
submitted by the research partners and/or to use the information and results for their own
purposes, provided that the owner’s rights are kept and taking care to specify their origin.
6.4. IRDiRC policies and guidelines
The project partners are expected to follow IRDiRC policies and guidelines and to participate
in IRDiRC working groups. For more information see http://www.irdirc.org/.
7. RESPONSIBILITIES, REPORTING REQUIREMENTS AND DISSEMINATION
The coordinators of all the funded projects must submit brief annual scientific project
reports and a final scientific project report (within six months of the end of the project) to
the JCS. All reports must be in English and use a common report form that will be provided.
The research partners are jointly responsible for delivery of the reports, and the JCS will only
accept reports delivered on behalf of the consortium, via the project coordinator.
If required, each participant should submit financial and scientific reports to their
national/regional funding organisations, according to national/regional regulations. The
progress and final results of each individual contract/letter of grant will be monitored by the
respective national/regional funding organisations.
Funding recipients must ensure that all outcomes (publications, etc.) of transnational E-Rare2 projects include a proper acknowledgement of ERA-Net E-Rare-2 and the respective
national/regional funding partner organisations.
The coordinators and/or national group leaders might be asked to present the results of their
projects at an intermediate and/or a final status symposium organized by the JCS. They
should foresee an appropriate travel budget in the application to participate in such an event.
8. CONTACT AND FURTHER INFORMATION
The JCS is set up at ISCIII (The National Institute of Health Carlos III, Spain) to assist the
CSC and the national/regional funding bodies during the implementation of the call and the
follow-up phase until the funded research projects have ended. The JCS will be responsible
for the administrative management of the call. It will be the primary point of contact referring
to the call procedures between the research consortia, the funding organisations (CSC) and
the peer reviewers. The project coordinator will be the person contacted by the JCS during
the application procedure, so he/she must forward this information to the other participants.
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Further information on the E-Rare-2 Project, the Call and the follow-up is available at the ERare-2 website (www.e-rare.eu). It is advised to contact the national/regional contact person
for any questions regarding the Call (please see national/regional contact details below).
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ANNEX I. National/regional contact details
Country/Region Institution
Website
National contact
Stephanie Resch
Phone: +43(1) 505 67 40-8201
[email protected]
Austria
FWF
www.fwf.ac.at
Iris Fortmann
Phone: +43(1) 505 67 40-8211
[email protected]
Belgium (Flanders)
Canada
Canada (Québec)
FWO
CIHR-IG
FRQS
www.fwo.be
Olivier Boehme
Phone: 00 32 2 550 15 45
[email protected]
http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca
Marilyn Desrosiers
Deputy Director, Strategic Program Design
and Analytics, CIHR
Phone: 613-954-6242
[email protected]
http://www.frsq.gouv.qc.ca/
Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé
(FRQS)
Karine Genest
(514) 873-2114, ext 1275
[email protected]
Anne-Cécile Desfaits
(514) 873-2114, ext 1368
[email protected]
France
ANR
www.agence-nationalerecherche.fr
Natalia Martín
+ (33) (0) 1 73 54 81 33
[email protected]
Health and Biology Department
Agence Nationale de la Recherche-ANR7 rue de Watt- 75013 Paris, France
Michaela Girgenrath
(++49) (228) 3821-1775
[email protected]
Germany
BMBF/PT
-DLR
www.gesundheitsforschungbmbf.de
Ralph Schuster
(++49) (228) 3821-1233
[email protected]
Peter Buch
(++49) (228) 3821-1129
[email protected]
Project Management Agency of the
German Aerospace Centre (PT-DLR)
-Health Research-
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Hungary
OTKA
http://www.otka.hu/
Béla Melegh
University of Pécs
Department of Medical Genetics
Phone: +36-30-298-8711 (mobile) +36-72536-427 (office)
[email protected]
Israel
CSOMOH
www.health.gov.il
Prof. Avi Israeli
Phone: +972 25082156
[email protected]
http://www.ministerosalute.
it/
Dr.Gaetano Guglielmi
Head Office 3 Health Research
General Directorate for Health, Biomedical
Research and Health Research Institutions
Supervision. Ministry of Health
Phone: +39 0659942186
[email protected]; [email protected]
www.lza.lv
Uldis Berkis
Centre of European Programs
Latvian Academy of Sciences
1 Akademijas laukums, Riga, 1050 Latvia
Tel: +371 67409242
[email protected]
www.en.ncbir.pl/
Marcin Chmielewski
National Centre for Research and
Development. Poland (NCBR)
phone: +48 22 39 07 109;
[email protected]
www.fct.pt
Anabela Isidro
Foundation for Science and Technology
(FCT)
Phone: +351 21 391 1552
[email protected]
Italy
Latvia
Poland
Portugal
MoH
LAS
NCBR
FCT
Romania
UEFISCDI
http://uefiscdi.gov.ro/
Simona Cristina Stoian
Executive Agency for Higher Education,
Research, Development and Innovation
Funding
Phone: +40213023893
[email protected]
Spain
ISCIII
www.isciii.es
Ignacio Baanante
Phone: +34 9182 22576
[email protected]
www.snf.ch
Claudia Rutte
Division of Biology and Medicine
Swiss National Science Foundation
Phone +41(0)31 308 22 41
[email protected]
Switzerland
SNSF
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Sonja van Weely
Phone: +31-(0)70 349 5220
(preferred): [email protected]
The Netherlands
ZonMw
www.zonmw.nl
Harald Moonen
Phone: +31-(0)70 349 53 49
[email protected]
The Netherlands Organization for Health
Research and Development (ZonMw)
K. Melike SEVİMLİ
Phone: +90- 312- 468 53 00 / 1976
[email protected]
Turkey
TÜBITAK
www.tubitak.gov.tr
A. Özge GÖZAY
Phone: +90- 312- 468 53 00 / 1007
[email protected]
The Scientific and Technological Research
Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
EU Framework Programmes
National Coordination Office
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ANNEX II. Indicative funding commitments of the participating organisations of
the E-Rare-2 JTC 2014
Country/Region
Participating organisation
Envisioned
amount of
funding (M€
for 3 years)
Anticipated
number of
fundable
research
groups
1
4
Austria
Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Belgium
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
0.2
1
Canada
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of
1
Genetics(CIHR-IG)
1.07
3-4
Canada
Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé (FRQS)
0.36
1-2
France
French National Research Agency (ANR)
2
6-10
Germany
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
(BMBF)
3
10-15
Hungary
Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA)
0.15
2
Israel
Chief Scientist Office of the Ministry of Health (CSO3
MOH)
0.24
4
Italy
Ministry of Health (MoH)
1
4-6
Latvia
Latvian Academy of Sciences (LAS)
0.4
2
Poland
National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR)
0.5
2-3
Portugal
Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)
0.2
1-2
Romania
Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research,
Development & Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI)
0.5
1-6
Spain
National Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII)
0.2
2-3
Switzerland
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
0.82
5
The Netherlands
The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and
Development (ZonMw)
1
4-6
Turkey
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
(TÜBITAK)
0.6
4-6
2
4
1
CIHR-IG will fund to a maximum of $1.5 million Canadian over three years (currently equivalent to 1.07 Mio €) to support
operational research costs only. The Canadian amount will not be adjusted to reflect conversion rate changes.
2
FRQS will fund to a maximum of $0.5 million Canadian over three years (currently equivalent to 0.36 Mio €) to support
operational research costs only. The Canadian amount will not be adjusted to reflect conversation rate changes. Funds are
subject to availability of funds voted annually to FRQS by the National Assembly of Québec and FRQS Board of Directors’
approval.
3
The CSO-MOH will fund up to 4 projects. The funding commitment is up to 240,000 €, depending on budget availability.
Maximum funding per grant is 60,000 €.
4
SNSF has earmarked a budget of 1.0 million Swiss Francs over three years (currently equivalent to 0.82 Mio €).
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ANNEX III. Eligibility of beneficiary institutions for the participating
organisations of the E-Rare-2 JTC 2014
Eligible beneficiary Institution
Country/Region
Institution
Austria
Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Belgium (Flanders)
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Canada
Canada (Québec)
France
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Institute of Genetics (CIHR-IG)
Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé
(FRQS)
French National Research Agency (ANR)
German Federal Ministry of Education
and Research (BMBF)
Hungarian Scientific Research Fund
(OTKA)
Chief Scientist Office of the Ministry of
Health (CSO-MOH)
Germany
Hungary
Israel
Academia
Yes (3)
Clinical/public
health
Company
Yes (3)
Yes (3)
Yes
Yes (1,2)
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes (1)
Yes
Yes
Yes (1)
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Italy
Ministry of Health (MoH) Italy
No
Yes (4)
No
Latvia
Latvian Academy of Sciences (LAS)
Yes
Yes
Yes (1)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes (1)
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Spain
Switzerland
The Netherlands
Turkey
National Centre for Research and
Development (NCBR)
Foundation for Science and Technology
(FCT)
Executive Agency for Higher Education,
Research, Development & Innovation
Funding (UEFISCDI)
National Institute of Health Carlos III
(ISCIII)
Swiss National Science Foundation
(SNSF)
The Netherlands Organization for Health
Research and Development (ZonMw)
Scientific and Technological Research
Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK)
Yes
Yes
Yes (1)
No
Yes
No
Yes (5)
Yes (5)
No
Yes (6)
Yes (6)
No (6)
Yes
Yes
Yes (1)
Please note that the information on this table is only indicative
(1) The eligibility of companies and institutions is subjected to different conditions in each
country/region. Further details regarding the eligible beneficiaries and other national eligibility
criteria and requirements are available on the “guidelines for applicants” and the E-Rare-2
website (www.e-rare.eu).
(2) Only clinics associated with universities are eligible for the FWO.
(3) Applications for projects from Austria may only be submitted by single natural persons.
Affirmation of the research institution (academia, clinical/public health, enterprise) of the
applicant is mandatory.
(4) Research Hospital: Istituti di ricovero e cura a carattere scientifico (IRCCS). Only IRCCS
(The Italian Scientific Institutes for Health Research and Health Care). The list of the IRCCS
by Region and City is available here:
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E-Rare-2 JTC 2014: Call text
http://www.salute.gov.it/ricercaSanitaria/paginaInternaMenuRicercaSanitaria.jsp?id=1064&m
enu=strumentieservizi.
(5) SNSF eligibility check refers to formal and material criteria. Applicants must show that
they have successfully carried out research work for several years, and must be capable of
running a project under their sole responsibility and leading the project team engaged for the
(sub) project. Proposals that are manifestly inadequate to be forwarded to external experts
for review or show obvious substantial insufficiencies in any of the SNSF scientific
assessment criteria are rejected and not forwarded to external review
(6) For universities, research institutes affiliated to universities, university medical centers,
research hospitals and for health promoting institutes and knowledge institutes the several
ZonMw grant terms and conditions (as of 1 July 2013) apply. Companies are not eligible for
funding of ZonMw in this call, however co-financing by companies or in kind contribution of
companies is encouraged.
Applicants are encouraged to contact their national/regional contact points for
further information
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